Calliostoma iridium, common name the Panama rainbow top shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Calliostomatidae.WoRMS (2012). Calliostoma iridium Dall, 1896. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=574900 on 2012-12-07Keen M. (1971) Sea shells of tropical West America. Marine mollusks from Baja California to Perú, ed. 2. Stanford University Press. 1064 pp.
Description The height of the shell attains 19 mm.
Distribution This marine species occurs in the Gulf of Panama and off Pacific Colombia at depths between 230 m and 280 m.
References
W.H. Dall (1896) Diagnoses of new species of mollusks from the West Coast of America; Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum XVIII, 1895, p. 7-20
External links Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) GenBank (4 nucleotides; 1 proteins) USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection World Register of Marine Species